The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?

While generally his paintings have a dynamic spontaneous and dramatic impact Kline often closely referred to his compositional drawings. He was born in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania and attended Girard College an academy in Philadelphia for fatherless boys. He spent summers from 1956-62 painting in Provincetown Massachusetts and died in New York City of a rheumatic heart disease.

He was born in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania and attended Girard College an academy in Philadelphia for fatherless boys. Franz Jozef Kline (May 23 1910 – May 13 1962) was an American painter mainly associated with the abstract expressionist movement centered around New York in the 1940s and 1950s.